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 conquest to the French; Sezane gave him as little trouble; from whence, after a very rapid march, he arrived at Paris, which was never able to resist an army.

Nothing could raise the spirits of his subjects more than this stroke; he expected to be soon master of all the northern provinces, as he depended on the Duke of Lerma's finding the King of England employment in the south; but we shall leave him here a little while, to take a view of the operations between George and the Spaniards. The Duke had advanced to Thoulouse, and hearing that Philip was marching to Paris, he exclaimed against this perfidy of the French in the highest terms. He reproached them with breaking their engagements, as they were to join him, and to act in concert with his army. The Spanish minister was no less loud in